Chapter 1185 Who do you think you are?

After a long while, an old prince with gray hair, relying on his seniority, reprimanded him:

"Han'er, how can you be so ungrateful? Your uncles are thinking about your life's important matters, about the lineage of the Prince of Dingbei, and about the future of the Great Yue Kingdom."

You are now twenty years old. Most men your age are already married and have children, but you haven't even had a child yet.

"Even if you're not in a hurry, you should think about your imperial grandfather and the succession to the throne. Do you want to be an unfilial person and cause your imperial grandfather's lineage to end?"

Mo Beihan chuckled and stared at the man, saying:

"You can't even manage your own affairs, yet you're meddling in your grand-nephew's marriage? My own grandfather and great-uncle haven't even spoken yet, so who are you to make the decisions?"

He deliberately emphasized the word "court" to remind the man that his marriage was not something that a "court" great-uncle could decide.

The Yuan Emperor and the Jingwu Emperor at the head of the table exchanged a glance, both remaining silent and watching the scene with slight smiles.

This old prince was their cousin. When the two brothers rose up in rebellion, they invited this cousin to join them.

Unfortunately, he was a coward who was afraid of death and refused to risk his life with them, even mocking them for overestimating their abilities and courting death.

Later, when their uprising succeeded and Emperor Yuan ascended the throne, this man shamelessly brought his entire family, young and old, to join him.

Emperor Yuan, mindful of the kinship between the two families, bestowed upon him the title of "Prince of Laiyang," a title without real power, and granted him a small and impoverished fiefdom.

After Emperor Jingwu ascended the throne, he did not strip him of his title and fiefdom. As long as he did not cause trouble and stayed obediently in his fiefdom, he could enjoy wealth and honor for the rest of his life.

As cousins, this is quite a kind gesture.

If a person knows how to be grateful, he should live a life of wealth and comfort in his own fiefdom, free from worries about food and clothing.

However, since the severe drought that struck his fiefdom this summer, he used the excuse that he could not make a living there and moved back to the capital.

Fine, move then, but you had to be so reckless as to provoke Mo Beihan, that jinx.

Mo Beihan's blunt words caused the Prince of Laiyang's face to turn pale and then red. He slammed his fist on the table and stood up angrily, saying:

"How dare you, a junior, be so disrespectful to your elders? As your grandfather, am I not allowed to interfere in your marriage?"

Mo Beihan sneered:

"My marriage is for my own family to handle. Who do you think you are? Besides, do you even know how to manage it? You can't even manage the mess in your own backyard, yet you have the time to meddle in other people's marriages. You should go back and investigate how many of your children and grandchildren are your own, and how many of them are involved in incest or adultery."

"You, you, you...you're being insolent! You're spouting utter nonsense!"

The Prince of Laiyang was so angry that his face turned red. He pointed one finger at the unfilial junior who had uttered such shocking words, and with the other hand he was panting heavily, looking as if he was about to faint from anger.

The members of the royal family present looked at each other in astonishment, as if they had just heard some juicy gossip.

It has long been rumored that the Prince of Laiyang is licentious and dissolute. Although he is already an old man in his seventies with gray hair, he has a large number of wives and concubines in his mansion.

This man was indiscriminate in his desires, taking any beautiful girl he saw into his household as a concubine, regardless of whether she was from a respectable family or a courtesan, as long as she was pretty.

He had more than a dozen concubines in his household, as well as twenty or thirty children, and he probably couldn't even remember how many grandchildren he had.

His older grandsons were even a few years older than his newly acquired concubines.

With such a vast backyard and such a debauched head of the household, it was inevitable that some chaotic things would happen in the mansion.